Proceedings of the 5th UK user group meeting

Synopsis

The 5th UK user group meeting took place at the
Royal Statistical Society in
London on 17-18 May 1999. Organisation was by Ana Timberlake
of Timberlake Consultants (the logistics) and by Stephen Jenkins and Peter
Sasieni (the scientific programme).

About 50 people attended each day, including representatives from a range of
disciplines, including bio-medical statistics, economics, and geography. We
were very pleased to welcome Bill Gould and Alan Riley from StataCorp.

Over the 2 days there were 9 presentations by Stata users plus major
presentations from Bill Gould and Alan Riley. Topics covered included
programs for graphics, data summary, estimation of multivariate models, and
Stata programming per se. The Statacorp sessions included a report to users
with some glimpses of future developments (including a lively question and
answer session), programming in Stata 6, collaboration taking advantage of
Stata’s new net commands, and the upgrades to the survival analysis
(st) program suite.

The more hardened Stata addicts continued discussions at a local pub and
later at an Indian restaurant.

Abstracts of the papers are posted below or at
http://www.timberlake.co.uk/.
Speakers’ names and email addresses are included, and anyone interested in
obtaining a copy of a program mentioned is invited to contact the relevant
speaker.